Sentence examples for popular affection from inspiring English sources

Still, Ms. Yarkoni's death prompted an outpouring of popular affection.

Popular affection has shifted to the Islamists of Hamas.

This helps explain why the bill has not won more popular affection.

Rarely has a movie been quite so reliant on the popular affection in which its leading actor is help.

But to the casual observer, his daily plunges into a bath of popular affection look like a more traditional political activity: an election campaign.

This is hardly the EU's fault the blame lies more with national governments but it makes it hard to drum up much popular affection for the union's institutions.

Contemporary and Modern art is cooler than it's ever been, and has substantially replaced art of previous centuries in popular affections: Even barely known names make good money if their image hits a zeitgeist nerve.

That the latter keeps a tenacious hold on popular affections is demonstrated by figures listing Rudolf Friml's Rose Marie (1924) and Sigmund Romberg's The Desert Song (1926) as the most frequently performed works in U.S. musical theatre, in terms of both amateur and professional performances.

His effort to force the state budget process into something resembling normalcy — without the theatrics of his predecessor, Schwarzenegger — has made him popular despite his affection for askance pursuits like the bullet train.

Since leaving office, the former president has become a figure of affection, hugely popular in the polls, and something of a grandfather to the nation.

J. J. Abrams's film is stuffed with period detail and sincere affection for popular culture, but it squanders its sense of wonder on a story that diminishes in emotional resonance even as it grows in scale and self- importance.